final chapter
Most of Pine Valley came out for David's funeral. He hadn't always been the easiest person to love, but everyone felt grief over his untimely death. Cara came, pregnant with David's child. She was convinced it was a boy and planned to name him "David." Dr Hayward's ex-wife Anne came back for this funeral. She had been the mother of his daughter Leora, who had died. With David gone Anne's last remaining link to Leora was gone. Babe and Anne met for the first time. Babe Assured her that David and Leora were together in heaven. Anne found great comfort in this. David's cousin Maggie came back also. Maggie met her cousin Marissa for the first time. She was happy for her and her ex-girlfriend Bianca, glad they had found each other. David Hayward had his good and bad points. Today, people focused on the good points. Bianca remembered how David helped her after the rape, how they'd tried to keep her pregnancy a secret, what he'd been willing to give up. Kendall remembered how David saved her son Spike. Maria, Greenlee, Dixie, Zack, they all knew they wouldn't be here were it not for David. Even Adam, who had hated David more than anyone once, chose to remember David for saving his brother Stuart. Everyone knew Babe had seen David on the other side, they were willing to believe he had made it. And they were glad that this doctor, at long last, was at peace.
the end